If that summary is even 50% accurate, I would only buy that book if the price were 50 cents.
But it will sell well!
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“Right”? It’s not a right, it’s a duty.
It’s a responsibility that comes from knowing what you’re doing and caring for others.
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another Brit?
Noone is lying. Everyone is believing.
If that is not arrogant i do not know what is.
What right do you have to dictate how peope see things, be it Scripture or Sceince! You do not. You have no right to tell anyone how to read Scriture.
It makes no difference t life whether the earth is 6000 or however billions you care to decree. It is not that imposrtant! But it might make the difference between having a faith and savation and losing both! Do yo want that on your conscience? Or doesn’t it matter to you!
All this rubbish about correcting and caring! Poppycock! It is pure vanty, Nothing more!. You altruism is fooling only yoursef.
Richard
Salvation isn’t Love.
I am not sure what that cryptic comment is supposed to mean. it is not love to tell someone they are deluded and wrong.
And if you are claimng that love supercedes salvation or is somehow distant from it, I cannot think where you get it from.
The point here is about declaration of truth and claiming to hold it.
And the contra of claiming soeone else is plain wrong.
No one has that right except God!
People here are sitting in God’s place and claiming Love.
Perhas they should read Revelations after all. The Beast said as much!
Richard
Does British Columbia count?
Of course! Prat is a fine Briticism. Was that intended?
Well! Now I know!
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There are no sources that would justify claims that mutation is impossible and that beneficial mutations don’t exist. Both claims contradict a mountain of observations.
Sorry, but any book that makes claims so totally divorced from reality is not worth reading, much less paying for.
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You would have to pay me quite a lot to read it.
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The roughly 70 mutations typically present between parent and child in humans generally do not have drastic effects. Contrary to comic books, mutations do not provide superpowers. Most mutations do not have any effect beyond creating new DNA sequences that might evolve into something else. Small mutations are roughly equally likely to increase or decrease the effectiveness of the product. Whether an increase or decrease in effectiveness is useful or not, or unimportant, will depend on the exact situation. Large changes in a gene are likely to make it less good at its current function, but better at some other function. Possibly that other function is useful, possibly not.
Evolution does not have a particular goal. If something works, it survives and has a chance to reproduce and go on into the next generation. The earliest bone is tooth-like or scale-like (not totally clear which came first). A deposit of spare calcium and phosphate is potentially useful biochemically, besides possibly providing some protection. Organizing that production is useful.
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There is an entire field of study devoted to the mechanics of getting there: it’s evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo for short). Don’t assume that things you don’t know about don’t exist.
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Unless you’re Lee Spetner and define freely swap definitions post hoc to make every change seem like a loss of ‘information’. He lives blissfully free of the ravages of cognitive dissonance that you and I would crumble under.
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Very very roughly, a lower bound of 1 in 100,000.
2 or 3 per person.
67 or 68 out of the 70.
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I have not read the book, but so far none of the samples mentioned are either original or compelling. I am pretty sure Kent Hovind could of said almost every single one of them 30 years ago with little variation. The only thing original or interesting thing about this anti-evolutionist book is that it appears to be an example of Jewish anti-evolutionism. I have encountered Islamic anti-evolutionism, but one based on the modern Jewish tradition is new to me.
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I rest my case.
But I do not expect you, or anyone els to accept it.
Richard
Normally, one does that after presenting a case.
I’d be happy to explain to you how that distribution of mutational effects translates into adaptive evolution – but I don’t expect you to take me up on the offer.
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Believer…thanks for your contribution here. I especially like the comment that breaks down “what the book offers.” This lays out the major points (“facts” as you say)
Beyond all that…..I think others here have covered much of what you are trying to say.